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Children's Book Week Shortlist - Themem Song & Book Trailers

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Theme Song for Read Across The Universe: I Left My Book At Home composed by Nathan Cahill - Video 1:57
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The Terrible Suitcase by Emma Allen and Freya Blackwood
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The Pros and Cons of Being a Frog by Sue DeGennaro
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The Coat by Julie Hunt and Ron Brooks
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Too Many Elephants In This House by Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner
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Peggy by Anna Walker
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Sophie Scott Goes South by Alison Lester
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Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
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Tom the Outback Mailman by Kristin Weidenbach
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Herman and Rosie by Gus Gordon

Read Across the Universe Activities for Computer Lessons

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Read Across The Universe 2013 Booklist Activities - with thanks to Irene Buckler who creates this fabulous link each year.
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NASA Space Images - free for educational or informational purposes.
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NASA Goddard Photo Sets and Videos - free for educational or informational purposes. This can only be accessed from home, not at school.
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Design a poster for the Scholastic Book Fair and Children's Book Week using any Microsoft Office product. This image is deliberately not linked to any software.
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Cosmic Combos: Create an Alien Invasion! from Arthur- PBS Kids
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Alien Assembly Required - Arthur: PBS Kids
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Create Words about the Universe using Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
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Create Your Own Newspaper using The Newspaper Clipping Generator - fodey.com
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Create an Alien Space Scene using Kerpoof
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Create a Comic About Space using Comic strip maker - British Council
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Customise a pulp magazine cover with Pulp-O-Mizer software

Space, The Universe & Aliens: Games and Activities for Kids 

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Space - FunSchool Kaboose
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Planet Pursuit Games - FunSchool Kaboose
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Alien Activity Centre - FunSchool Kaboose
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Space Janitor - National Geographic Kids

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Scholastic Book Fair during Education Week
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Possum Magic: The Musical - The Concourse for all children in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2, Friday 17th May.
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Storm Boy by Colin Thiele - Sydney Theatre Company for all children in Years 3 - 6, Friday 16th August.

Possum Magic by Mem Fox       Kindergarten, Year 1 & Year 2

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Possum Magic the Movie 8:38 minutes

Storm Boy by Colin Thiele         Year 3 - Year 6

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Storm Boy Part 1 10:50 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 2 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 3 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 4 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 5 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 6 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 7 10:51 minutes
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Storm Boy Part 8 9:16 minutes
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Author Fact Sheet for Colin Thiele
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12 year old Rory Potter creates a Storm (Actor in Storm Boy) - ABC News
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Peter O'Brien Actor in Storm Boy - Wikipedia Biography
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Actor Trevor Jamieson in Storm Boy as Fingerbone Bill - Biography